Visiting Speakers

Vincent Bonnecase is an historian whose research focuses on the history of hunger in Sahelian Africa, the construction and standardization of knowledge on living standards, and the issue of food in Sahelian Africa.

Dan Bouk is an Assistant Professor of History at Colgate University. He recently completed a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. He specializes in modern US history and the history of science.

Katrine Bregengaard is co-founder of the 1949 Human Rights Exhibition Project hosted by the Institute for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University.

Eduardo Cadava is Professor of English at Princeton University, where he also is affiliated with the Program in Media and Modernity, the School of Architecture, the Center for African American Studies, the Program in Latin American Studies, and the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.

Curtis Chin is an award-winning writer and producer who has written for both network television and cable. He’s also won awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the San Diego Asian American Film Festival. He co-founded the Asian American Writers’ Workshop and Asian Pacific Americans for Progress and is currently a Visiting Scholar at NYU, where he is working on a new documentary on specialized high schools in New York City.

Alessandra Ciucci holds a PhD in ethnomusicology from The City University of New York at The Graduate Center. Her research interests include: the music of Morocco, North Africa, the Mediterranean, music and gender, sung poetry, popular music, popular music of the Arab World, and music and transnationalism. Her articles appear in Ethnomusicology, The Yearbook for Traditional Music, The International Journal of Middle East Studies, Mondi Migranti, Cahiers de musiques traditionnelles, and in several edited volumes. She has been a recipient of a Fulbright foreign scholarship grant (Morocco), a fellowship from the Jewish Foundation for the Education of Women, a grant from the American Institute for Maghrib Studies Grant, and was a Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Music Department at Columbia University.

Judith R. Cohen is an ethnomusicologist specializing in Judeo-Spanish ("Ladino") Sephardic songs, as well as in medieval and traditional music, including Balkan, Portuguese, Yiddish, and French Canadian, pan-European balladry,and songs from Crypto-Jewish regions of the Portuguese-Spanish border. 

Dermot Coleman is the Founder and Director of Sisu Capital Limited. He received his DPhil in English from the University of Exeter in 2011. The book project developed from his thesis, titled George Eliot and Money: Economics, Ethics and Literature, was published by Cambridge University Press in June 2014.